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From: root@texbell.sbc.com (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: ports hanging
Message-ID: <248@texbell.sbc.com>
Date: 9 Nov 90 20:16:17 GMT
Sender: root@texbell.sbc.com
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This system is a netnews/email gateway machine. Quite often, it
runs out of free disk space in the /usr file system.

When this happens, every serial ports hangs, and can't be un-hung 
without a reboot. I've tried killing the gettys, removing the uugetty
lock files, reloading the hpsio microcode, and changing run levels.

uucico will connect to the ports, but gets a "generic timeout". Also
any existing uucico processes at the time, get hung, and are
unaffected by kill -9.

Any ideas on how to recover the ports without a reboot?

Machine 32/600
System  03.00.01
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Greg